Nobody's Hero
I think it's time we talked this over I think you've taken this too far
I never wanted to be different didn't ask to be nobody's star
Try and take control of it because what you see is what you get
Try and take control of it and not me
Don't wanna be nobody's hero don't wanna be nobody's star
Don't wanna be nobody's hero get up get out be what you are
You say there's talk of revolution so what's new you say there's fighting in the air
You think that I've got the solutions but do you really think that's fair?
Try and take control of it because what you see is what you get
Try and take control of it and not me
Don't wanna be nobody's hero don't wanna be nobody's star
Don't wanna be nobody's hero get up get out be what you are
You think it's time you took me over to do what you can't do yourself
But don't let heroes get your kicks for you it's up to you and no-one else
Try and take control of it because what you see is what you get
Try and take control of it and you'll see
Don't wanna be nobody's hero don't wanna be nobody's star
Don't wanna be nobody's hero get up get out be what you are
You think you're nobody and I get all the fun
But no-one is a nobody everyone is someone
State Of Emergency
You're looking for something but what could it be?
You look for a hero well don't look at me
You look for solutions but there's none you can find
You believe in something that's only in your mind
You're looking around you but hate has made you blind
And you've spent the last ten years of your life in this emergency
So please don't just sit there let's try to break out
From all the hatred suspicion and doubt
Try to change your life that is no life at all
Try to break down the imaginary wall and if you couldn't be bothered
Well then, my friend, you'll fall and spend all the rest of your life in this emergency
Piccadilly Circus
Piccadilly Circus in the dead of night just passing time beneath the lights
Up in town and all alone got no business so minds his own
The hotel room is lonely and cold he might as well go for a stroll
Idly looking in a hi-fi shop footsteps, a chuckle, and one hard slap
And they didn't even see his face see him flinch or hear him groan
They didn't even see his eyes one mean blow and on they ran
He put his fingers to his side and felt his flesh was open wide
He felt the rent the blow had made for the hand that fell had held a blade
And they didn't even see his face see him stumble, hear his cry
They didn't even see his eyes just lashed out in passing by
What can it mean who can make some sense of that?
Did it mean a thing to them what can make a mind like that?
Those forty stitches helped him over who can live life over his shoulder?
He tried to put it in his past and flew safe home back to Belfast
And they didn't even see his face see him stagger, watch him fall
They didn't even see his eyes they never knew him at all
Never knew him tried to kill him never knew him tried to kill him
Roaring Boys
Paddy is waiting in Drogheda town for the train to carry him south
Another drunken night on the town messing around
The Roaring Boys, the roaring boys it's all the same to the roaring boys
They come into town just to make some noise the life of the roaring boys
Drinking and fighting and acting the fool shouting insults and thinking you're cool
Telling lies and believing they're true who's fooling who
The Roaring Boys, the roaring boys it's all the same to the roaring boys
They come into town just to make some noise the life of the roaring boys
Won't you tell me all your cares and problems
Won't you tell me why you look so blue
I'll take you into town show you a thing or two
I know every bar and nightclub no two will be the same
I know every nightclub doorman and they'll all know my name
Charlie can you lend us a tenner just until Saturday night
You know I'll pay you back man you know I'll see you right
Because I am a roaring boy a wild colonial boy I'll party all night long roaring boy
Stevie, let's hit the town I've got some money that I want to spend
Let's go out on a bender, let's get drunk again But don't tell me about your cares and problems
Because I don't really want to know I've got train to catch and I have got to go
Because I am a roaring boy a wild colonial boy I'll party all night long roaring boy
Is That What You Fought The War For?
I know you did your bit back then but what was it you won?
Take a good look round you now whose side were you on?
And I wonder if you understand at all and I wonder if you ever ask yourself
When everyone has an equal chance to live the life they buy
When free health care can save your life but queue until you die
Then I wonder if you understand at all and I wonder if you ever ask yourself
Is that what you fought the war for. Is that what you fought the war for
Is that what you fought the war for. Is that what you fought the war for
When still the muscles make the man and men make women pay
When Britain's flag is a badge of hate and just the fair can play
When still the homeless, jobless cry when money shouts and lies
And buys off just enough to vote pass by the other side
Then I wonder if you understand at all and I wonder if you ever ask yourself
Is that what you fought the war for. Is that what you fought the war for
Is that what you fought the war for. Is that what you fought the war for
At the going down of the sun and in the light of day
All you need remember is we won't be taken like your generation again
Is that what you fought the war for. Is that what you fought the war for
Is that what you fought the war for. Is that what you fought the war for
I Don't Like You
If I thought you could find a way I'd tell you to go get lost
But why ask you to pay attention when your brain can't stand the cost
Look at you and the state you're in next to you even a brick is thin
You ought to scratch from the human race you are a waste of a name
A waste of time and a waste of space you've only one claim to fame
I don't like you
If a thought came into your head it would die of loneliness
You rate absolute zero no more and not even less
Look at you what a state next to you short planks are underweight
You ought to scratch from the human race you are a waste of a name
A waste of time and a waste of space you've only one claim to fame
I don't like you
Annoyed, annoyed I'm not paranoid
Because that would mean I have to care and I couldn't be annoyed
You don't entertain ideas you simply bore them
You couldn't find your feet if you were looking for them
Looking at you it's hard for me next to me is nowhere to be
You ought to scratch from the human race you are a waste of a name
A waste of time and a waste of space you've only one claim to fame
I don't like you
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